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David Shapiro Ilan talks to Senior Editor Susan Jones about a paper in the May issue where Ricardo Machado and colleagues describe how bacterial symbionts of nematodes are evolved to help these worms kill a devastating crop pest: Western Corn Rootworm. The paper can be read here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Senior Editor Markus Elsner talks to Alex Marson of UCSF about the significance of a Science paper describing the phase 1 clinical trial of CRISPR-engineered T cells. The work was carried out by Carl June and Edward Stadtmauer from UPenn. Read the paper here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Senior editor Irene Jarchum talks to Cliona Rooney about a recent paper in which Mark Cobbold and colleagues describe an antibody-mediated strategy to re-target virus-specific T cells against tumors. The paper was published in Nature Biotechnology; it can be read here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brady Huggett talks with Zemin Zhang about a recent Nature Biotechnology paper detailing the use of spatial transcriptomics in providing new insights into tumor architecture. The work was done by Itai Yanai and co-authors, and the paper can be read here.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Senior Editor Irene Jarchum talks to Stefan Schneeberger about the significance of a recent Nature Biotechnology paper describing a sophisticated perfusion machine to keep human livers alive for a week. The work was carried out by Pierre-Alain Clavien and colleagues from ETH Zurich. Read the paper here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.